(b. 15 December 1962). 3rd dan Yoshinkan Aikido-IYAF. B. Te Awamutu, New Zealand. B. A. in Anthropology from Auckland University. Yoshinkan Aikido Shidoin. Relocated to Japan in 1985. Began training at the AIKIKAI HOMBU...
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Josh GoldKazuo Chiba 千葉和男
(5 February 1940-5 June 2015). Also T.K. Chiba, 8th dan Aikikai (1978). B. Tokyo. Professional aikido instructor. Entered the AIKIKAI HOMBU DOJO as an UCHIDESHI in February 1958. Promoted to 3rd dan in 1960. Assigned to...
Virgil Crank
(b. c. 1934). Early American instructor of YOSHINKAN AIKIDO. First taught by Eugene COMBS and Tom CORZINE in the late 1950s in Lawndale, California. Crank was the first person promoted to 1st dan by Corzine and he...